The mushroom community in Colorado built around this ‘Grow, Gather, Gift’ model has yielded some incredible results and world-class data. …an example of community self-regulation through the development of testing standards and data sharing… Colorado has been a hotbed of mushroom entrepreneurism over the last two years since Proposition 122 was passed with a 54%…
Indeed, in April [2024], the Yale School of Medicine published the results of the first randomised control study of psilocybin for pain relief. Although it enrolled just 10 CH [Cluster Headache] sufferers, half of those who received psilocybin as opposed to a placebo reported a reduction in attacks. Precisely how psilocybin interrupts the cycle of headaches is an open question. Brain scans suggest…
Portland advocates for psychedelic drug use are hoping to put an initiative on the city’s 2026 ballot that would protect people who use what they call non-toxic and non-addictive plant- or mushroom-based psychedelic drugs from arrest. Under the proposed initiative, non-toxic and non-addictive psychedelics would be designated police officers’ “lowest priority for enforcement,” according to the initiative…
…empowers the governor to grant pardons to people who’ve been convicted of psychedelics-related offenses and also revises implementation rules and data-tracking provisions for the state’s 2022 voter-approved psychedelics legalization law. Polis touted the fact that Colorado’s legal psychedelics program is “fully launched” now that regulators have issued licenses for each part of the psilocybin supply chain. Original Article (Marijuana Moment):Colorado…
The slump doesn’t prove that mushrooms were a post-COVID fad. People are growing them in plastic tubs in basements and taking trips with facilitators in Airbnbs. It’s just that OHA isn’t offering what people want, says Ryan Reid, co-founder of Bendable Therapy, a nonprofit center that offers psilocybin trips in Bend. “There is no funding…
Morning glories were already known to contain a class of chemicals called ergot alkaloids. These chemicals, made exclusively by fungi, are the same class that the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann used to create LSD in the 1930s. Hofmann worked with the fungus Claviceps purpurea, commonly found on rye, to synthesize LSD; he came to suspect that Mexican…
The House of Representatives endorsed the bill in a 70-69 vote on Monday that was followed Tuesday by a 17-16 vote in the Senate. The measure faces further action in both Democratic-led chambers, with Gov. Janet Mills looming as a potential obstacle after her administration sent police to testify against decriminalization earlier this year. Advocates…
The state had argued that a federal judge could not require Oregon Health Authority to allow the additional psilocybin service in special cases when people cannot travel to treatment centers because it would violate federal law, the Controlled Substances Act, and expand what state law now allows. The providers want the state to comply with…
Doblin reached out to several politicians for help too. He even wrote a letter to Pope John Paul II. [Matthew] Johnson also accused Griffiths of infusing his research with his own spiritual beliefs and advancing a political agenda aimed at spreading the use of psychedelics. All this, Johnson said, created a “cult-like atmosphere.” Not everyone…
We’ve become used to seeing administrative and executive officials, including the VA and members of Congress, acknowledging the potential benefits of psychedelics as medicine. …surgeon general nominee was a potential proponent of the use of psychedelics like psilocybin. Now, another member… someone from the Food and Drug Administration. The head of the FDA has advised that “exploring the…
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